Peninsula: My mentor Kim Tae-yeon

"Thank you for leaving me with a kindergarten diploma." Kim Tae-yeon said with a grateful expression.

"You're welcome." Su Xia waved her hand dismissively.

Kim Tae-yeon couldn't hold back any longer. She rolled her eyes and turned away, making it clear that she wasn't going to talk to Su Xia anymore.

Seeing this, Su Xia shrugged and printed out the registration form from the attachment.

It's definitely not possible to fill out an electronic version of this and send it to the other party; the correct way is to fill it out by hand and mail it in.

Ding dong.

Su Xia picked up her phone and saw a pop-up notification from Yin Fu, so she reached out and tapped it.

"ILLIT sparks controversy again just one month after their debut!"

As soon as the marketing account started talking, Kim Tae-yeon, who had decided to ignore Su Xia, perked up her ears.

Yesterday morning, ILLIT revealed their fan name as "LILLY," which sparked heated discussions on Korean online forums because it sounded the same as NMIXX member LILY in Korean. They later changed it to "LILLYs," but this name overlapped with BLACKPINK member LISA's fan name, immediately triggering further controversy and criticism.

"Ultimately, Hybe had no choice but to announce another change to the fan name, selecting a new one from the original pool of candidates."

Su Xia looked at Kim Tae-yeon blankly.

"Who is this Lily?"

He did know Lisa; she was the Crazy Horse Queen, and in a sense, she was the number one K-pop artist, the number one male and female artist in the tulle style.

But Lily from NMIXX...?

"The song you've been listening to a lot lately, 'Dash,' is their song," Kim Tae-yeon explained to Su Xia, who had just decided to ignore her.

"Oh, it's them!" Su Xia suddenly realized. During this period, besides listening to Girls' Generation and Kim Tae-yeon's songs, he had been randomly listening to songs from fifth-generation girl groups.

However, compared to NMIXX, whose songs I may have only heard a few of and whose original singers I may not even remember, Godai Gosho left a much deeper impression.

"How's this combination?" Su Xia pressed.

"A very strong junior group, and each girl is also very beautiful. They are one of the few groups in the fifth generation that excels in both singing and dancing and looks."

The Korean algorithm NMIXX belongs to the fourth generation of K-pop groups, but Kim Tae-yeon has also been assimilated by Panda K-pop and has accepted the concept of the five kings of the fourth generation, the five constants of the fifth generation, and the sixth generation.

"Now that you mention it, I'll have to take a look." Su Xia's fingers immediately started moving, but before he could find NMIXX, another video caught his attention.

"LESSERAFIM Coachella crashed?" Su Xia muttered to herself, then clicked on the video.

Kim Tae-yeon's expression shifted.

Has Coachella's slump arrived before LESSERAFIM's rise?

"Lesserafim's two nearly 40-minute live performances at the Coachella Music Festival's second week, which concluded yesterday, sparked huge controversy. His performances revealed shortcomings in his singing and dancing skills, as well as flawed choreography, leading Korean media to label him 'a disgrace to K-pop.'"

Member Sakura responded that the stage was the most perfect stage the team could present, but the response did not quell the discussion about the decline in the professional skills of the new generation of K-pop idols.

Open the comments section, and you'll find nothing but sarcastic remarks like "buffalo moo moo" and "Coachella Ranch".

Su Xia curiously clicked on LESSERAFIM's Coachella live video.

A moment later...

"Rosé is the wind of Coachella that stirs the hearts of K-pop fans, while LESSERAFIM is the cattle of Coachella's ranch-like pastures," Su Xia remarked.

"Pfft!" Kim Tae-yeon couldn't help but burst out laughing.

LESSERAFIM's Coachella slump back then did indeed put him through a lot of hardship in South Korea for a period of time. However, with a series of high-quality comebacks the following year and topping the iTunes charts in dozens of countries, LESSERAFIM's reputation underwent a complete reversal, and the mockery turned back into praise.

She had never heard the word "water buffalo" before; it seemed to be a term coined by Chinese K-pop fans.

"They don't sing as well as I do," Su Xia said with a click of her tongue.

"I'm definitely not as good as you." Kim Tae-yeon laughed even harder. "You can count the number of fifth-generation girl groups whose singing skills are better than yours on one hand. No matter how much I train you, you're still my student."

When Kim Tae-yeon said this, she held her head high, and it was clear that she was quite proud.

"Looks like LESSERAFIM is going to fall behind this time," Su Xia thought to herself, looking at the thousands of sarcastic comments.

"Hehe." Kim Tae-yeon smiled mysteriously.

Falling behind?

Next year, LESSERAFIM will be able to take on four opponents with ease; the real losers are someone else.

That's true. If it weren't for Kim Tae-yeon, who came back from the future and knew in advance, who would have thought that the first of the five permanent members to fall behind would be them?

"Looks like there's still some truth to it." Su Xia raised an eyebrow. "That's alright. I quite like Chi's style, and I like him too."

"Actually, LESSERAFIM's situation is common among the new generation of girl groups. They debuted too early, had too little training time, and their foundation wasn't solid." Kim Tae-yeon shook her head as she spoke. "Back then, if we debuted after training for two or three years, we would be called royalty or parachuted in. But now? Trainees who debut after training for two or three years are considered veterans in the group."

"Like LESSERAFIM, Sakura debuted early, but she has serious functional problems, which can't be forced. Apart from Kim Chae-won who received more than a year of systematic training, the others simply didn't have time to practice."

"Singing skills require hard work. Your learning speed is the fastest I've ever seen. Even so, you still need to practice your voice every day. But they didn't even do that. It's normal for them to have a bad performance on a live stage."

"That makes sense, but I seem to remember you having a similar mishap before," Su Xia nodded and suddenly said.

Kim Tae-yeon: "?"

He pointed to himself.

"Me? When have I ever had a mishap?"

Su Xia opened Bilibili with a smile and clicked on Kim Tae-yeon's cover of "Snow Flower".

The familiar voice rang out, and Kim Tae-yeon's face immediately darkened.

She remembered!

I remember everything now!!!

"I'm not feeling well today, I have a cold." Kim Tae-yeon coughed lightly, trying to save face.

"I understand." Su Xia nodded. "Just like when I get solo killed in League of Legends, it's usually because my computer is dropping frames, my hands are too cold, or my internet speed is slow."

Kim Tae-yeon's face was as black as the bottom of a pot.

You understand your damn crap!

"In short! LESSERAFIM's problems are prominent, but they are also easy to solve. As long as they study hard, they can make up for it." Kim Tae-yeon forcefully changed the subject.

Su Xia looked at Kim Tae-yeon with disdain, determined not to let her off this time.

"Aren't you going to admit your mistake?"

"This is a stage for Kim Tae-yeon's mishap in this world, what does it have to do with me?" Kim Tae-yeon said, sticking her neck out.

"So you've never had a mishap?"

"No!" Kim Tae-yeon said firmly.

"walk slowly."

Su Xia lowered her head and started scrolling through videos.

Seeing that Su Xia wasn't pressing the issue any further, Kim Tae-yeon secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

The stage performance of "Snow Flower" was one of the few times she seriously messed up. Fortunately, Taeyeon from this world took the blame for her, otherwise it would have been difficult to get away with it.

Taeyeon suffers hardship, Kim Taeyeon is happy.